GRE Word List
PHYSIOGNOMY
the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance
The meaning of the word physiognomy is the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance.
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| tractable | capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled : docile |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| fluency | the quality or state of being fluent |
| sway | the action or an instance of swaying or of being swayed : an oscillating, fluctuating, or sweeping motion |
| typhoon | a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or the China sea |
| comatose | of, resembling, or affected with coma |
| pathological | of or relating to pathology |
| estranged | having lost former closeness and affection : in a state of alienation from a previous close or familial relationship |